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OF SOUTH CAROLINA, AND THE SUBSEQUENT ACT 

IN AMENDMENT THERETO; 



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REGULATIONS OF THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE. 



AND ALSO, 



Regulations of the Faculty of the University. 



COLUMBIA, S. C. 
W. W. DEANE, PRINT. 



I 867 



RELATIVE TO THE 

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 



Ax Act to Establish the University of South Carolina. 

Whereas, The proper education of youth is a matter of vital impor- 
tance to this State in its present condition, and ought to he the special 
object of Legislative attention: And tchereas, The conversion of the 
South Carolina College into an University will meet its great demand, 
and will foster all the elements which have heretofore contributed to its 
intellectual and moral power, and will preserve its unity and glory : 

I. Be it there/ore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, 
now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, 
That the corporation heretofore created by an Act entitled " An Act to 
establish a College at Columbia," ratified the nineteenth day of De- 
cember, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and one, 
shall hereafter be known by the name of the University of South Car- 
olina, and as such, shall be entitled to all the rights and be liable to all 
the duties conferred or imposed upon the said original corporation by 
the said Act, and all amendments thereto, except where the same shall 
be modified by the provisions of this Act. 

II. That the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina 
shall, as soon as practicable alba- the ratification oi' this Act, establish 
Schools and provide Cor competent Professors in the following depart- 
ments, to wit : First, a School of Ancient Languages and Literature; 
second, a School of Modern Languages and Literature; third, a School 

of History, Political Philosophy and Economy; fourth, a School of 

Rhetoric, Criticism, Elocution and English Language and Literature; 
fifth, a, School of Mental and Moral Philosophy, Sacred Literature and 
Evidences of Christianity: sixth, a School <>[' Mathematics, Civil and 



4 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

Military Engineering and Construction ; seventh, a School of Natural 
and Mechanical Philosophy and Astronomy; eighth, a School of 
Chemistry, Pharmacy, Mineralogy and Geology. 

III. The Board of Trustees shall take care that one of the Professors 
therein before provided for shall be a Minister of the Gospel, who shall 
also be charged with the duties of Chaplain to the said University, 
under such regulations and with such additional salary as may be fixed 
by the said Board. 

IV. That no student shall matriculate until he shall have attained 
the age of fifteen years, and shall agree to enter at least three of the 
Schools provided for by this Act : Provided, however, That in special cases 
the Chairman of the Faculty may, at his discretion, permit any appli- 
cant to take less than three Schools. The fees to be paid by each 
student shall be as follows: If the student enters three Schools or 
more, for each School he shall pay twenty-five dollars per annum ; if 
the student enters tAvo Schools only, for each School, thirty-five dollars 
per annum ; if the student enters only one School, fifty dollars per 
annum. The compensation for room-rent, use of Library, and such 
damages to the property of the corporation as may be done by each 
student, shall be regulated by the Board of Trustees. 

V. The Board of Trustees may, if it is deemed proper, give a license 
to one or more persons learned in the Law, and one or more Professors 
of Medicine, to give instruction in their respective professions in the 
said University, and assign to them, or any of them, a Lecture-room or 
Lecture-rooms, in which, at times, and under terms and conditions, and 
with tuition fees prescribed by the said Board, they may respectively 
form classes and deliver instructions in their respective professions ; 
and the same license may, if deemed proper by the said Board, be given 
to a person or persons qualified to instruct in any mechanical or prac- 
tical pursuit. None of the branches of instruction provided for in this 
section shall be considered as Schools, or included in the number neces- 
sary to be taken by any person before matriculation. 

VL Each Professor hereinbefore provided for shall be allowed to 
occupy a house belonging to the corporation, free of rent, and be en- 
titled to receive a salary of one thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly, 
in advance, by the Treasurer of the State, and shall also be entitled 
to receive such tuition fees as may be paid by the students entering the 
School at the head of which such Professor may be. 

VII. The Board of Trustees shall appoint a Librarian, who shall act 
as Treasurer of the corporation and Secretary to the Faculty, and per- 
form such other duties and receive such salary as the Board of Trustees 
may prescribe. 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 5 

VIII. The various Professors appointed to give instruction in the va- 
rious Schools provided for in this Act shall constitute a Board, to be 
called the Faculty of the University of South Carolina, one of whom 
shall be chosen by the Board of Trustees as Chairman of the said Fa- 
culty, who shall perform the duties heretofore imposed upon the Presi- 
dent of the South Carolina College, except where the same has been 
altered or modified by this Act. 

IX. That nine members of the Board of Trustees, at any stated or 
occasional meeting thereof, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction 
of any business which is entrusted to the said Board ; and in case of 
the absence of the President of the Board at any meeting, the majority 
of those present, provided there be a quorum, may proceed to elect a 
President pro tempore. 

X. That the Members of the General Assembly from each Election 
District in this State, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and 
empowered, from time to time, to select one youth from each of their 
respective Districts, who shall be received into this University, and be 
allowed to matriculate in this Institution, and enter any three of the 
Schools provided for in this Act which may be selected by him, with- 
out any charge for tuition, room-rent, or use of the Library ; and each 
Professor hereinbefore provided for shall be elected upon condition that 
he will give gratuitous instruction in his School to such of the said 
youths as may enter his School : Provided, hoivever. That no person re- 
ceiving the benefit of this section shall be exempt from any charge 
which may be made for damages done by him to the property of the 
corporation. 

XL That the Board of Trustees may, if deemed advisable, elect a 
Bursar, who shall hold his office upon such terms and conditions, per- 
form such duties, and be entitled to receive such salary or compensation, 
as the said Board may prescribe. 

In the Senate House, the nineteenth day of December, in the year of 
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. 

\V. 1). PORTER, 
President of the Senate. 
C. II. SIMONTON, 
Speaker Elouse of Representatives. 
Approved: James L. Ore. 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Ax Act to amend the Act establishing the University of South 

Carolina. 

I. Be it enacted bg the Senate and House of Representatives, now met 
and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That 
the fifth section of an Act entitled " An Act to establish the University 
of South Carolina," ratified on the nineteenth day of December, 
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five, be 
so amended as to require the Board of Trustees of the University of 
South Carolina to establish, as soon as practicable after the ratification 
of this Act, a School of Law, with one Professor, and a School of Medi- 
cine, with two Professors. 

II. That the Board of Trustees shall determine and regulate the 
course of studies in the said Schools, and the duties of the Profes- 
sors in the respective departments thereof; and shall, as soon as prac- 
ticable, select competent persons to the Professorships so established. 

III. That the Professors in said Schools shall be entitled to the 
same salary as is provided by law for the other Professors of the Uni- 
versity, and shall receive such fees of the students who enter their 
Schools as are required, or may hereafter be required, under and by 
virtue of the fourth section of the Act aforesaid, of the students who 
enter the Schools by said Act provided for. 

IV. That the said Professors shall be members of the Faculty of the 
University of South Carolina, in like manner as the other Professors, 
and shall in all respects be, in like manner, subject to the provisions of 
the aforesaid Act, and to the rules and regulations imposed by the 
Board of Trustees. 

V. That the Board of Trustees of the University, on the recommen- 
dation of the Chairman of the Faculty and of the Professors of the 
Schools of Law and Medicine, shall confer the degrees of Bachelor of 
Law and of Doctor of Medicine upon the graduates of the said Schools, 
for satisfactory attainments in all the subjects of instruction in their 
respective Schools. 

VI. That the graduates of each of these Schools, upon whom the said 
degrees may be conferred, shall be entitled to pursue and practice their 
respective professions. 

VII. That the Faculty have authority to license a Demonstrator of 
Anatomy and other persons of suitable attainments, character and 
habits, to give private instruction in aid of the public teachings in any 
of the Schools of the University. The said licentiates be not at liberty, 
without special leave of the Faculty, to receive pupils who are not 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 7 

members of the School or Schools for which they are licensed, nor to 
give instruction on subjects not embraced in the plan of the same. 
The employment of the licentiates to be at the option of the students, 
and the compensation a matter of private arrangement. 

In the Senate House, the twentieth day of December, in the year of 
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six. 

W. D. PORTER, 

President of the Senate. 
C. H. SIMONTON, 

Speaker House of Representatives. 
Approved December 20th, 1 866: James L. Ore, Governor. 



BY-LAWS, 



CHAPTER I 

The Board of Trustees. 

1. The government of the University is vested in a Board, incorpo- 
rated under the legal name and style of " The Trustees of the Univer- 
sity of South Carolina." 

2. This Board consists of the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of 
the State, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives, the Judges of the Court of Appeals, the Circuit 
Judges of the Court of Law, and the Chancellors, as members ex-ofjicio, 
together with twenty other persons, elected by joint ballot of the 
Senate and House of Tiepresentatives, to hold the office for four years, 
and until others shall have been elected. 

3. Nine members shall constitute a quorum of the Board, sufficient 
for the transaction of any business relative to the University. 

4. The Board is authorized to fill, by ballot, any vacancies in its own 
body, occasioned by the resignation or death of those who are not 
members ex-officio. 

5. 1 1 is Excellency the Governor, is, ex-offwio, the President of the 
Board, and, when present, shall preside at all meetings. In his absence, 
the Lieutenant-Governor, or the President of the Senate, or the Speaker 
of the House of Representatives, shall preside, taking precedence in the 
order in which their offices are here mentioned. In case none of these 
should be present, a. temporary President shall be chosen. 

0. The stated, annual meeting ol* the Board takes place on the first 
Wednesday after the fourth Monday in November, and may be con- 
tinued by adjournment from day to day, (the interval between t he days 
not exceeding two weeks,) until an adjournment sine die 

7. There is also a semi-annual meeting on the Wednesday after the 
first Monday in May, whieh maybe continued in like manner as the 
Stated meeting. 



10 UNIVERSITY OF 'SOUTH CAROLINA. 

8. Beside these regular meetings, the President of the Board shall 
have full power to call occasional meetings whenever it shall appear to 
be necessary. 

9. The Chair, at all meetings of the Board, shall be addressed by- 
members standing and uncovered; any motion, proposition or resolution 
shall be submitted in writing, if any member shall require it ; and busi- 
ness before the Board shall be conducted according to the ordinary 
rules of Parliamentary Law. 

1 0. The Board shall elect a Secretary by ballot, who shall hold his 
office during its pleasure, and no longer. He shall receive a salary of 
two hundred and fifty dollars, payable quarterly in advance. Pre- 
viously to entering on the duties of his office, he shall give bond and 
security for the faithful discharge of them, in the penalty of five hun- 
dred dollars. 

11. These duties shall be to preserve, in well-bound books, provided 
at the expense of the University, faithful and accurate minutes, neatly 
and legibly written, of all the proceedings of the Board ; to copy into 
the same books all communications from the Chairman of the Faculty, 
or any Professor, relative to the government, discipline, or instruction 
of the University, to file and take care of all original communications 
4o the Board, upon any subject and from any source ; to read at every 
meeting of the Board the minutes of the one next preceding ; to annex 
to his records convenient and accurate indexes ; to execute all occa- 
sional orders of the Board given to him ; and without any special 
order, to communicate to the Faculty, any Committee, officer or other 
person, any action or resolution of the Board which, in its plain mean- 
ing, shows that the Board intended that notice of it should be had by 
the body or person to whom he shall make such communication. 

1 2. The Board has charge of all the funds and property of the Uni- 
versity, and to it all donations for the benefit of the University must 
be made. The Board elects the Chairman of the Faculty, Professors 
and all other officers of the University, (except as hereinafter provided,) 
fixes their salaries, determines their tenure of office, prescribes their 
duties, authorizes the Faculty to confer degrees, and enacts all such 
ordinances and by-laws as shall appear to be necessary for the good 
government of the University. To the Board alone belongs the power 
of expelling a student from the Institution. 

13. The expulsion, of a student can only take place at a stated meet- 
ing of the Board. 

14. No vacancy in the officers of the University can be filled, except 
temporarily, at any other than the stated, annual meeting. Temporary 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 11 

appointments, to continue until the stated meetings, may be made at 
any meeting. 

15. In all investigations, in which the Board deems it necessary to 
the interests of the University, it is invested with full power and 
authority to compel witnesses, by subpoena, rule aud attachment, to 
appear and testify, and papers to be produced and read before it. 



CHAPTER II. 

The Officers of the University. 

1. The officers of the University shall consist of the Professors, Li- 
brarian, and Bursar and Marshal, and such others, as the Board may, 
from time to time, appoint. 

2. The Board reserves to itself the election of all these officers, 
except the Bursar and Marshal, and the election shall always be by 
ballot, a majority of the votes of the Trustees being necessary to a 
choice. 

3. The Professors and Librarian hold their offices during the pleasure 
of the Board, and no longer. The Bursar and Marshal is elected 
annually by the Faculty, and is removable by them at pleasure. 

4. No officer, whose tenure of office is the pleasure of the Board, 
shall, without its consent, resign his office, unless by giving one year's 
previous notice of his intention to do so. 

5. The Professors shall reside permanently in apartments assigned to 
them in the University buildings, unless permitted to reside elsow here; 
and all officers residing in the University buildings shall, at their own 
expense, keep their houses and lots in good repair. 

6. Every such officer shall, during his occupation of any University 
building, out-building or fixture, be liable to the Trustees I'm- neglect to 
repair, in the same manner as if he was under a contract with them, to 
uphold, maintain and repair the buildings and fixtures occupied by him, 
and upon his going out- by death or otherwise, he, his executors and 
administrators, shall be, in like manner, liable Cor an)' neglect that may 
have occurred during his occupation. When he enters he must notice 

defects and want of repair then existing, and immediately report the 
same to the Executive Committee, who shall act therein according to 
the orders of the Board, and in case of there being no other order in 

the matter, shall, at any rate, make special examination of the partial 






12 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

lars so reported, and carefully write a memorandum, (to be reported to 
the Board and safely kept in its archives,) of all the defects and want 
of repair observed on such examination. To the extent of the particu- 
lars noted in this memorandum, the officer aforementioned shall not be 
liable, beyond the necessity of keeping the buildings and fixtures in as 
good condition as they were in, when they came to his occupation. To 
the obligation and terms contained in this by-law every officer accedes 
by entering into the possession of any University building or fixture. 
To them, every officer now in possession, by continuing, accedes, so far 
as to be liable for all that has occurred since he went in, and all that 
may hereafter occur. 

7. Every Professor, upon coming into office, shall prepare an address, 
upon some subject connected with his department, to be publicly 
delivered at a time fixed by the Board of Trustees. 

8. In all cases, in which an officer is required to give bond and secu- 
rity for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office, the bond shall 
be made payable to the Trustees of the University of South Carolina, 
and a condition shall be annexed, that the said bond shall be valid and 
binding on the said officer and his sureties for the whole time, during 
which he shall remain in the said office, although it may exceed the 
term for which he was elected, whether he holds over in virtue of a 
new election, or on account of the omission of the Board to elect a 
successor, or from any other cause. 

9. Should the sureties to the bond of any officer die, or remove with- 
out the limits of the State, or should the Board or Executive Commit- 
tee have reason to believe that they, or any of them, have become 
insolvent, or should the Board, or the said Committee, for any other 
cause, become dissatisfied with the security of the bond, the said officer 
shall, on notice from the Board, or from the Executive Committee, be 
removed from office, unless he give other sufficient security, to be 
approved of by the said Executive Committee, or some other Commit- 
tee of the Board. 



CHAPTER III. 

Faculty of the University. Professors and Secretary of the, Faculty. 

1. The Professors have the immediate care and government of the 
under-graduates, and are denominated the Faculty of the University. 

2. The Faculty have authority to make all orders and regulations 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 13 

conducive to the successful discharge of their duties, and to the carry- 
ing into effect the laws of the University, according to their true intent 
and meaning. 

3. The arrangement of the duties of the Professors; the time to he 
devoted to the studies ; the number and order of recitations or lectures 
of each class in eacli department ; the modes of recitation ; the 
methods of teaching ; the plan of conducting the public examinations ; 
the arrangement of classes; the hours and number of recitations; and 
in general, the details of instruction, are matters committed to the 
Faculty, subject, at all times, to the control of the Board of Trustees. 

4. The Faculty are authorized to license teachers of the polite 
accomplishments, and of exercises conducive to health. 

5. They have cognizance of all offences committed by under- 
graduates, and it is their special duty to enforce the observance of all 
the laws and regulations of the Board, for maintaining discipline, and 
promoting order, virtue, piety and good learning in the Institution. 
They shall further have the powers concerning assessments, servants, 
the bursary, the rooms and other particulars, subject, in every case, to 
the orders and revision of the Board. 

6. They shall have a stated vveekly meeting and review the events of 
the preceding week; and, on any sudden emergency, the Chairman or 
any other member, may call a meeting at any other time. 

7. All votes in the Faculty shall be viva voce, except in the election 
to offices, which they have a right to fill. 

8. All other officers of the University, when requested by the Facul- 
ty, are bound to attend their meetings, to aid them with advice, if 
requested, and to execute such orders as the Faculty may give, consist- 
ently with the laws of the University. 

9. No question whatever, connected with the government or disci- 
pline of the University, shall be debated by the Faculty in the presence 
of any student, nor shall the opinion of any member of the Faculty, 
nor the result of their deliberations be made known without their order, 
or the requirement of the Board of Trustees. 

10. There shall be a Chairman of the Faculty, who shall be elected 

by the Board of Trustees from among the Professors. He shall he the 

Chief Executive officer of the University, and as such, charged with 
superintending the execution of all laws made for its government. He 
shall address instruction and counsel to the students, as he shall find 

opportunity; and, at every half-yearly meeting of the Board of Trus- 
tees, he is required to acquaint that body with the stale, interests and 
wants of the whole Institution; lo recommend such measures as he 






14 UXIVEPvSlTY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 

may deem conducive to its success as a place of liberal education, and 
to report the course of studies which has been pursued by the several 
classes : by what Professors each has been taught ; what text-books 
have been used, and the manner in which officers and students have 
discharged their respective duties. To the Chairman of the Faculty 
also it belongs to grant dismissions from the University upon the appli- 
cation of parents or guardians, in the case of minors; upon their own, 
in the case of those who are mi juris; to give temporary leave of absence 
from Columbia, and to allow the occasional indulgences elsewhere pro- 
vided for. lie must preside, when present, at all meetings of the Faculty, 
deliver the results of their opinions, and pronounce their sentences 
and censures against the students. He is also to preside on public 
Academic days, and to confer the degrees. He is also, ex-officio. Chair- 
man of the Executive Committee and of the Library Committee, and 
is authorized to fill vacancies amongst the visitors appointed to attend 
the examination for degrees. In his reports to the Board, he shall keep 
in view the distinction between his various capacities as Chairman of 
the Faculty, and Chairman of several Committees. These reports shall 
give full information concerning all material resolutions and transactions 
that come to his knowledge in either capacity ; especially concerning 
expenditures of money and assessments upon the students. In makiug 
them he may call upon the Librarian for reports, information and assist- 
ance, such as that officer in either of his capacities, as Librarian. Trea- 
surer and Secretary of the Faculty, ought properly to be able to afford. 

11. If, in any case, the Faculty, including himself, shall be equally 
divided, the Chairman shall, notwithstanding, have the casting vote. 

12. In the absence, >iekness. or death of the Chairman, the Faculty 
shall appoint one of the other Professors to discharge his executive 
functions until the next meeting of the Board, unless, in the case of 
sickness or absence, the Chairman of the Faculty sooner returns to his 
duties. 

13. It is the duty of the Professors, besides giving instruction in 
their several departments, to assist the Chairman of the Faculty in 
enforcing the discipline of the University. 

14. Every Professor has the right to prescribe the text-books of his 
department, to determine the mode of recitation, and to make any 
regulations or assign any exercises, not inconsistent with the laws of the 
L niversity, or orders of the Faculty, which he may deem conducive to 
the good order of the students in his recitation room, or to proficiency 
in study. 

15. Every Professor is at liberty to permit persons, not students of 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 15 

the University, to attend his lectures or recitations, on such terms as 
lie may think proper to prescribe. 

16. The Secretary of the Faculty, who is also Librarian and Trea- 
surer, shall keep a record of all the proceedings of the Faculty, which 
shall be laid before the Board of Trustees at its annual meeting, and 
shall, at all times, be subject to the inspection of any member of the 
Board. Pie shall discharge such duties, and be subject to such regu- 
lations as the Faculty may, from time to time, prescribe. 

17. At every half-yearly meeting he shall transmit to the Board of 
Trustees a full catalogue of all the students then in the University, to 
which shall be subjoined the names of all whose connection with it 
lias, in any way, determined since the meeting last preceding. 



CHAPTER IV. 

Admission of Students. 

1. No one shall be admitted to the University, unless he have a good 
moral character, certified in writing, by his last, preceptor, or some 
other suitable person. If from another University or College, his 
standing must be shown to have been good at the time of his leaving it. 

2. The Faculty may examine all applicants and judge of their quali- 
fications. 

:i. The qualifications shall, from time to time, be fixed by the Faculty, 
subject lo t lit 1 revision of the Board, 

4. On the admission of a student he shall subscribe his name to a. 
Roll, so kept as to show the date of his admission, and the class to which 
he is admitted. This Roll shall be headed thus : 

"The University of South Carolina. We severally enter this Uni- 
versity, with a full understanding and acknowledgment of these t nit lis, 
viz: It, is the duty of every student to submit to the laws and govern- 
ment of the University. No combination, pledge, promise or vow can 
create an obligation to violate duty." 



16 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

CHAPTER V. 

Devotional Exercises. 

The Chaplain shall conduct such religious exercises, as the Faculty 
may, from time to time, prescribe. 



CHAPTER VI. 

Session, Vacation, Holidays. 

1. There shall be but one Session in each year, which shall com- 
mence on the first Monday in October, and shall terminate on the first of 
July. 

2. The only Holidays that shall be allowed in the University, are 
Christmas day and Good Friday. 

3. The Faculty, however, may occasionally dispense with the regular 
exercises for the sake of others which they may approve. 



CHAPTER VII. 

Examination and Degrees. 

1. There shall be two public examinations of the students of each 
School of the University every Session ; the first, or intermediate, to 
be held at such convenient time near the middle of the Session, as the 
Faculty shall appoint, but to be so regulated as to prevent a general 
suspension of the Lectures during its continuance ; the final immedi- 
ately to precede the Summer vacation, but authority is given to the 
Faculty, in their discretion, to dispense with the intermediate exami- 
nations in any or all of the Schools, and to substitute, for them, such 
other examinations as they may deem best. 

2. From these examinations, no student shall absent himself, without 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 17 

leave of the Faculty, under pain of any punishment, not exceeding 
dismission from the University. 

8. The Faculty is authorized to confer on those students who obtain 
distinction in the several Schools a certificate to that effect, signed by 
the Professor of the School, and delivered publicly or privately at the 
discretion of the Faculty. 

4. The Faculty may, in their discretion, exclude from the Lecture- 
room, during the public examinations, all students, except those under 
examination. 

5. In conferring degrees, and granting certificates of proficiency, the 
Faculty will keep steadily in view, the necessity of making these hon- 
orary distinctions, evidences of real merit, and a reward for the acquire- 
ments of persevering diligence. And in all such rewards and distinc- 
tions conferred, they will have reference to the student's general 
eonduet and character, and to his standing in other Schools of the Univer- 
sity, besides that wherein he is a candidate for the distinction in ques- 
tion. And in all cases before a degree or certificate of proficiency is 
granted, the candidate must give the Faculty satisfactory proof of his 
ability to write the English language correctly. 

G. The degrees conferred by the University shall be the following : 
(1). That of Proficient, to be conferred for satisfactory attainments in 
such departments of each School as the Facility may designate 
and publish. (2). That of Graduate, in a School, conferred for satisfac- 
tory attainments in the leading subjects of instruction in the same. 
(•'>). That of Bachelor of Law, to be conferred for satisfactory attain- 
ments in all the subjects taught in the School of Law. (4). That of 
Doctor of Medicine, to be conferred for satisfactory attainments in all 
the subjects taught in the several Schools, constituting the Medical De- 
partment, with the exception of Botany and Practical Chemistry. (5). 
Thai of Bachelor of Arts, to be conferred on such students as have 
graduated in any two of the Literary Schools of the University, and 
in any two of the Scientific Schools, and have attained distinctions at, 
an intermediate ami final examination in the Junior (Masses of any two 
of the remaining Schools, (<>). Th;if of Master oi' Arts, to be con- 
ferred upon students who have graduated in Ancient Languages, 
Modern Languages, Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, Ghemistry, 
Mental ami Moral Philosophy, History, Political Philosophy, and 
Rhetoric and English Literature. 

7. The candidates for the Degree of Bachelor or Master of Arts shall 
satisfy the Faculty ol* his general literary acquirements by furnishing 
an appropriate essay, composed by himself, on some subjeel of litem- 



18 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA 

tare or science. Such essays shall be handed to the Chairman at least 
six weeks before the close of the session ; and the Faculty may require 
one or more of them to be read by the author or authors on the public 
day. 

8. The candidate for the Degree of Master of Arts shall furthermore 
be required to undergo a general examination before the Faculty, at the 
close of his course of study, on all the subjects embraced in the curri- 
culum, which must prove satisfactory to the Faculty, to entitle him to 
the degree. 

9. Candidates for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine, who have been , 
previously declared Graduates in Chemistry or Proficients in Anatomy, 
Human Physiology or Medical Jurisprudence, shall not be required to 
undergo the examinations on these subjects anew for the degree : and 
the same rule shall apply to candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of 
Law, who are Proficients in International and Constitutional Law and 
Government. 

10. The candidates for graduation in the respective Schools shall, 
within one month after the commencement of the Session, or their ma- 
triculation, inform the Professor of the School, in writing, of their inten- 
tion to offer for graduation therein, and on failure to do so shall not be 
permitted to become candidates, but with the leave of the Faculty. It 
shall be the duty of the Professor, at the daily examination of his class, 
to examine candidates for graduation with especial strictness, and to keep 
an account of their state of preparation at these examinations, and lay 
it before the Faculty at their monthly meetings. On the examinations 
for graduation, the daily state of preparation of candidates shall be con- 
sidered by the Faculty in deciding upon their qualifications for degrees. 

11. As soon as convenient, after the candidates for graduation in the 
several Schools shall be known, the Faculty shall appoint the times at 
which the examinations to test their qualifications shall be held in each 
School, and give notice thereof. 

12. If a student shall be suddenly called home from the University 
before he has stood his examination for a degree in any School, wherein 
he may be a candidate for one, the Faculty may, in their discretion, 
taking the merit of said student and other circumstances into consider- 
ation, grant him an examination in the succeeding session, and may 
award him his degree, if he be found entitled to it, without requiring 
him again to matriculate. 

13. Certificates of Proficiency and Diplomas shall be given under the 
seal of the University, and shall be signed by the Chairman and Secre- 



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tary of the Faculty, and also by the Professors of the Schools respec- 
tively in which they are given. The Diplomas of the Bachelor or 
Master of Arts shall be signed by all the Professors. 

14. No Honorary Degree, unless recommended by the Faculty, shall 
be conferred, without an application to the Board of Trustees four 
months beforehand. 



CHAPTER VIII. 

Treasurer — Executive Committee — Fees and Pecuniary Matters of 

the University. 

1. The Librarian of the University is, ex-officio, Treasurer, and, in 
this capacity, he shall receive all moneys which the students are 
required to pay into the University Treasury ; all appropriations which 
may be made by the Legislature for the Library or the University, 
(except salaries,) if no other direction be given ; and all moneys which 
the Board of Trustees, the Library Committee, the Executive Commit- 
tee, or the Faculty, may properly direct him to receive. 

2. He shall make no disbursement without authority from the Board, 
or a special order in writing from the Library Committee, or the Execu- 
tive Committee, except that he may pay salaries, which may be 
provided for in the laws of the University, at the prescribed times, out 
of the tuition fund, if no other fund shall have been provided. The 
contingent compensation of the Bursar he is to regard as a salary pro- 
vided for by the weekly price of board, and subject to the deductions 
which the Chairman of the Faculty is elsewhere authorized to make. 
The sums accruing from the assessment for servants he is to regard as a. 
fund especially provided for their hire, and disburse upon the drafts of 
the Chairman of the Faculty. 

3. He shall keep, in suitable books, according to a well-arranged 
method of book-keeping, faithful and exact accounts of all his receipts, 
and disbursements, distinguishing tuition fees from other receipts, 
and expenditures for the Library from other expenditures, and showing 
under the head of every appropriation made by the Board, kept sepa- 
rate, I he payments which have been made under it. 

•1. He shall, semi-annually, on the first days of the stated and May 
meetings of the Board, make a. detailed report ol' his receipts and 
expenditures; thai, at the stated meeting, for the preceding year, and 

that, at May, for the preceding half-year ; and. with each report, shall 



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submit his vouchors, and specify the bonds and other securities that 
may be in Ms h I with a statement of their condition; with each 
report, he shall a] Lxnate of the probable receipt- for the 

next half-year, and of the appropriations which are proper to be made 
by the Bo,,.: I. arr mged according to the degree of rheir necessity; to 
make thi- Lm - .. shall c offer with the Executive Committee, the 
Library C le Faculty and Marshal, reporting what each of 

these may - i _■_ . ■ , and his opinion of the suggestions, severally; and, 
previous to Lb shall submit his annual report of 

receipts and expenditures to the Executive Committee, the Library 
Committee, andth F y, and after it shall have been examined and 

approved by each of these bodies, shall cause it to be printed for the 
use of the L _: -~. tture, an 1 seo I Lt, t >gether with the printed copies, to 
the Board of Tr - the first day of frs stated meeting. 

5. An E Committee of Five, of whom the Chairman of the 
Faculty shall be one. and. ex-officio, Chairman, shall be annually 
appointed at the sd meeting of the Board. It shall meet in the 
Library on the first Saturday of each month, and oftener, at the call of. 
the Chairman. To it must be 1 all proposed expenditur a : 
appropria' - Le, r the 1 urd of Tr- from the Treasury, 
except th" >e for tl fit of the Library; and no money shall be 
drawn from the Treasury, except by the immediate authority i 
Board, or the >i of Library Committee, unless authorized by the 
draft of the Executive Commil t . signed by its Chairnu 

6. The Session shall be divided into two equal term- — one beginning 
on the first of October, and the other on the loth of February. All 
fees for tuition, and all University charges, shall be paid in advance, at 
the beginning of each term. No deduction shall be made when the 
student enter- during the term. But. upon the death of a student, or 
when he leaves the 1 oiv rsity by permission of the Faculty, on account 
of ill-health, th ■:' tuition, and other University charges paid, 
shall be ref mded. 

7. An annual fee dollars shall be paid into the Treasury of the 
University, by each student, at the beginning of the Session, or upon 
his entrance into the University. 

8. Xo part of the University fund, or of the fund appropriated by 
the Legislature for the Library, shall be drawn or expended, without 
the previous appropriation of the Board of Trustee-. 



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CHAPTER TX. 
Rooms — Their Occupation — Buildings. 

The Faculty shall make all needful regulations respecting the use 
and occupation of the buildings by the students, which shall be subject 
to revision by the Board. 



CHAPTER X. 

The Bursar and Marshal — Hoarding Houses. 

1. The offices of Bursar and Marshal shall be united in the same 
person. He shall be annually elected by the Faculty, and may be 
removed by them at pleasure. His salary shall be four hundred dollars, 
payable quarterly in advance ; and he shall give bond and security in 
the penalty of five hundred dollars. lie shall be under the direction 
and control of the Faculty. 

2. lie is charged with the general superintendence of all the Univer- 
sity buildings, out-buildings and other fixtures belonging to the Tni- 
versity, (except those appropriated to other officers,) and of the grounds 
within the University enclosure. He shall take special care that none of 
them are injured or destroyed, and shall forthwith report i<> the Faculty 
any injury they may have sustained, and the author or authors of it, if 
known. He shall also superintend ail repairs ami cleansing which the 
Faculty may direct, and shall keep the Faculty informed of the condi- 
tion of the buildings as to their need of cleansing and repairs. It shall 
be his duty, further, to inform the Professors <>f bon-lires, or any other 
disturbance caused by the students, and (<> aid and assjst in detecting 
the offenders, if required t<> d<> so; and to extinguish the fires. He 
shall remove, or caused to be removed from within the University 
enclosure, all persons and things not belonging to the University thai 
are likely to disturb the quiet and order of the campus such as stroll- 
ing musicians, idle and noisy boys from the town, hogs, horses, dogs, 

cattle. 

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22 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

food, in sufficient quantities and well-prepared ; to have the meals of 
the students boarding with him. decently and punctually served up at 
the hours which the Faculty may prescribe, and, in general, to keep a 
boarding house, of which, on account of fare, attention and cleanliness, 
no just complaint can be made. 

4. The price which each student, boarding in Commons, is to pay for 
board per week, shall be fixed, from time to time, by the Faculty ; and, 
for his compensation, the Bursar shall be entitled to the sums — abating 
the authorized deductions — paid by the students for weekly board; 
and. to the use of the commons* hall, furniture and garden, subject to 
the obligation of keeping them in repair, and of giving up the garden 
when the ground may be needed for other purposes by the Board. 

5. Before entering upon the duties of his office, the Bursar shall give 
bond with sufficient security, to be approved by the Executive Commit- 
tee, in the penalty of live thousand dollars, conditioned to comply with 
the above requisitions at the compensation above specified, as also to 
conform to all laws made, or to be made, by the Board of Trustees or 
the Faculty, for his government and direction. 

6. For the accommodation of students, whose parents or guardians are 
unwilling that they should board in Commons, the Faculty are author- 
ized to license other boarding-houses, upon the following conditions : 
Each of these houses must, through a responsible proprietor, engage, 
(1.) That a lady shall always preside at the table; (2.) That the meals 
shall be punctually furnished at the same hours with the meals in Com- 
mons, except that supper maybe an hour later; (3.) That no intoxicating 
liquor, whether distilled or fermented, shall be supplied to the students, 
in the house, or by any person connected with it. and none be permit- 
ted to be drunk at the table, or by a student in the house ; (4.) That the 
misconduct of a student in the house shall be reported, to the Faculty, 
and in case of disorder, suspected or known, the house shall be subject 
to the visitation of the Faculty. The violation of any of these con- 
ditions shall cause a forfeit of the license. 

7. Students shall be at liberty to board at these houses, upon the 
written application of their parents or guardians to the Chairman of the 
Faculty — such application always to be made either at the beginning of 
the session, or upon two weeks" notice ; and in detault of this notice, the 
student shall pay into the Treasury the amount of two weeks' board in 
Commons. Any student may be deprived of this liberty on account of 
riotous or disorderly conduct at the boarding-house, or for his failure to 
return from his meals at the hours prescribed. 

8. Students, whose parents or guardians reside in Columbia or its 
immediate vicinity, and who may wish their sons or wards to board, at 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 23 

home, may be allowed to do so upon the statement of their case to the 
Chairman of the Faculty. Those also Avhose health is certified by a 
practising physician to require it, may be permitted by the Chairman of 
the Faculty, to board at a private house. 

9. Students may also be allowed by the Faculty to accept board or to 
make arrangements, to be approved by the Faculty, for cheaper living 
than they can obtain in the Commons or licensed boarding-houses. 

10. The Board may revise any regulation the Faculty may make 
respecting the Bursar and Marshal, and boarding-houses. 



CHAPTER XI. 

Library — Librarian — Library Committee. 

1 . The Librarian, in addition to the duties naturally belonging to the 
department of a Librarian, shall perform those of Treasurer, and of 
Secretary of the Faculty. 

2. He shall be elected by the Board of Trustees, hold his office for 
an indefinite time at the pleasure of the Board ; be bound to give notice 
of his intention to resign in like manner as a Professor is bound, and 
receive a salary at the rate of fifteen hundred dollars a year, payable 
quarterly, at the end of each quarter. 

3. Before lie shall enter on the duties of his office, he shall give bond, 
in the penalty of ten thousand dollars, with two or more good sureties, 
to be approved by the Executive Committee, conditioned for the faithful 
performance of his duties. 

4. There shall be annually appointed a Library Committee, to consist 
of six members, to wit : The Chairman of the Faculty, two Professors, 
and three Trustees, of whom the Chairman o\" the Faculty shall be, ex- 
officio, chairman. The two Professors shall be elected by (he Faculty, 
:iiid their election be communicated to the Board of Trustees at its 
annual meeting, when the three Trustees shall be added. To supply 
any vacancy in this Committee, the President of the Board of Trustees 
or f he Faculty, shall make appointment, according as the vacancy may 

be, either of a Trustee or of a Professor. This Committee shall meet 

in the University Library on the first Saturday of every month, and at 
such other t hues and places as it may adjourn to, or as the Chairman, by 
a call, which he shall have power to make, may appoint. Semi-annually, 
this Committee shall report to the Board tA' Trustees fully concerning 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

the Library, the Librarian, the proceedings of the Committee, and the 
action which is de ired from the Board. 

."). The Library Committee shall, subjecl to the Hoard of Tmsl 
have the general control and supervision of the Library; shall author- 
ize all new orders for books ; may. ai its discretion, iii the purehat 
books, appoint book agents, and otherwise direct the Librarian; shall 
l»ro\ ide regulations concerning I he use ol books, visitors to the Library, 
and the duties of the Librarian, subject to the rules and orders of the 
Board 

6. The Librarian shall make out lists ofbooks to be submitted to the 
Library Committee for its orders, and lists of those ordered by the Com- 
mittee to be purchased ; shall purchase and receive the books which the 
Committee may authorize to be purchased ; shall obey all direct ion- of 
the Committee concerning book agents, the hooks and the Library; 
shall make a mil catalogue of all the books, and keep it complel 
the books accumulate; shall perform the duties that naturally belong 
to the department of a Librarian, according to the regulations which 
may be prescribed by the Board or the Library Committee ; shall be 
held responsible for all the books and papers which may come to his 
Charge, and shall carefully arrange and preserve all the manuscript books 
and papers which belong to the University, or any department thereof, 
except those "which are kept by the Secretary of the Board, or one of the 
Committees of the Board. 

The following shall be fundamental regulations for the Library 
that shall not be altered or dispensed with by the Library Committee: 

First. No one but the Librarian shall have a key to th< Library. 

Second. No person shall take books from the Library but through 
the Librarian. 

Third. Visitors shall not be permitted in the Library without the 
presence of the Librarian. 

Fourth. Xo student shall be permitted to lounge in the Library; his 
working or visiting there may be subject to the regulations of the 
Library Committee. 

it shall be the duty of the Librarian to be, in his own person, present 
in the Library at such hours as the Library Committee may appoint, 
every day, from the first day of October to the fifteenth day of July, 
(Sundays, Christmas day, and the fourth day of July, excepted,) unless 
necessarily prevented by sickness, or unless leave of absence shall have 
been granted to him by the Chairman i>\' the Faculty, which the Chair- 
man is hereby authorized, for good reason, to grant tor a time not 
exceeding one week : or unless leave of absence shall have been granted 
to him by the Librar ittee, which Commi i hei 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 25 

authorized, in its sound discretion, to grant for a time not exceeding one 
month. In all cases of his absence, by reason of sickness, leave or 
other cause, the Librarian shall take care that his duties in the Library 
be performed by a competent deputy ; and during his vacation between 
the fifteenth of July and first of October, he shall leave such a deputy, 
who may allow the use of books to persons entitled thereto, receive 
visitors, and do such other necessary duties as the regulations of the 
Library Committee may require. For the conduct of his deputy the 
Librarian shall be responsible. 

8. The Librarian shall further perform all duties and do all things 
which by by-laws or orders now existing, or hereafter to be made, may 
be required of the Treasurer or of the Secretary of the Faculty. His 
proper title, whichsoever of his duties may be referred to, shall be 
Librarian ; but he shall be meant whenever terms are used applicable 
to either of the ofiices heretofore existing, and now blended in the office 
of Librarian. 



CHAPTER XII. 

Discipline. 

1. The rewards and punishments of this Institution shall be address- 
ed to the sense of duty and the principles of honor and shame. 

2. The punishments of the University shall be friendly warning and 
caution by an officer of the University, or by order of the Faculty ; 
admonition before the Faculty ; suspension from the privileges of the 
University, for a definite time ; indefinite dismission, with notice to the 
parent or guardian of the offender ; and formal and public expulsion. 
Beside which, the Faculty may, in case of gross deficiency, degrade a 
student to a lower class or refuse him promotion. 

3. Offences are any acts, omissions, or habits, unfavorable to the 
peculiar duties of a student, or incompatible with the obligations of 
morality and religion, or inconsistent with the propriety, decorum or 
courtesy, which should always characterize the gentleman. As the (Mid 
of the University is to train a body of gentlemen in knowledge, 
virtue, religion and refinement, whatever has a tendency to defeat this 
end, or is inconsistent with it, shall be treated and punished as an 
offence, whether expressly mentioned in the laws Of not. The sense of 
decency, propriety and right, which every honorable young man carries 

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M UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

in his own bosom, shall be taken as a sufficient means of knowing these 
things, and he who pleads ignorance in snch matters is unfit to be a 
member of the University. The Board expects and requires the stu- 
dents to maintain the character of refined and elevated Christian 
gentlemen. It would be ashamed of any man, who would excuse 
breaches of morality, propriety and decorum, on the plea, that the acts 
in question were not specifically condemned in the University code. It 
earnestly desires that the students may be influenced to good conduct 
and diligence in study by higher motives than the coercion of law ; 
and it mainly relies, for the success of the Institution, as a place of 
liberal education, on moral and religious principle, a sense of duty and 
the generous feelings which belong to young men engaged in honor- 
able pursuits. 

4. Students may be arraigned for offences on the following grounds : 
The marks of the monitors ; the report of an officer of the University; 
credible information, imparted to the Faculty from any quarter, giving 
rise to reasonable suspicion ; circumstantial evidence, giving rise to a 
presumption of guilt ; and in the case of violence or injury to their own 
persons, upon the report of servants. No student, however, shall ever 
be convicted except upon his own confession, tacit or express, or full 
and satisfactory proof. 

5. One student shall never be required to give information against 
another, except when riotous or disorderly conduct shall take place in a 
student's room. In that case, the occupant, if he were present at the 
time, shall be bound to indicate the true offender, or be considered as 
assuming the guilt of the offence, and be punished accordingly. 

6. A student who has dishonorably concealed his own guilt and has 
permitted another to be punished for his offence, shall, upon detection, 
be expelled. 

7. When a student is arraigned upon suspicion, arising either from 
credible information, or from circumstantial evidence, the offence of 
which he is suspected, shall be distinctly stated to him, and he shall be 
required to confess or deny, that he had any agency in the matter. A 
refusal to answer shall be treated as a tacit confession of guilt. The 
name of an informer is, in no case, to be given up without his authority. 

8. Circumstances giving rise to reasonable suspicion or presumption 
of guilt are such as these : being present at the time and place of an 
offence ; residing in a tenement or entry in which an offence has been 
committed ; or being there on a visit at the time of its commission ; 
absence from morning prayers after a disturbance the night before. 

(1). When a student shall have been absent from his room after nine 
o'clock in the evening, he may be required to give account of himself 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 27 

for the whole night, as well as for the time when his room was visited. 

(2). If any improper or disorderly conduct take place in a particular 
tenement or entry, the Faculty may, without visiting the rooms, call up 
all the occupants of that tenement or entry, or any number of them, or 
all who, upon visiting the rooms, are found in it, or any number of them, 
and put each student upon his confession or exculpation. 

(3). If about the time of an offence, any student should be seen 
going to a particular tenement or entry, apparently from the place of 
the offence, and cannot be designated, all who may be found in that 
tenement or entry upon its visitation, may be arraigned, and each put 
upon his confession or exculpation. 

(4). If several students should be seen together at the time, and 
place of an offence, and yet the actual offender cannot be designated, 
the Faculty may arraign all, or any of the students thus seen together, 
and put each upon his confession or exculpation. 

(5). All absentees from morning prayers, when there has been riotous 
and disorderly conduct the night before, may be presumed guilty of 
having participated ; and, accordingly, be put, each, upon his confession 
or exculpation. 

9. The punishment of offences to which no particular penalty is 
assigned in the laws is left to the discretion of the Faculty. 

10. Whenever a student is convicted of an offence which, in the 
judgment of the Faculty, ought to be visited with expulsion, they shall 
forthwith suspend him, and order him from the University, and from 
the Town of Columbia, if his home is not there, and make a minute 
and particular report of the whole case to the Board of Trustees at its 
next meeting. 

11. The Chairman, with the assent of the Faculty, may request any 
parent or guardian to remove from the University, any student, his son 
or ward, who, in the opinion of the Faculty, is not fulfilling, or is not 
likely to fulfil the purposes of his residence 4 in the University, or who, 
in their opinion, is, from any cause, an unfit member of the Institution, 
and the student shall immediately leave the University, and also the 
Town of Columbia, unless his home is there. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 

Publication of Regulations of the Faculty. 

The Faculty shall rej^ort to the Board of Trustees all such Regula- 
tions as they may adopt, and shall cause them to be published for the 
information of the students. 



CHAPTER XIV 

Amendments and Alterations of the Laics. 

Xone of these By-Laws shall be subject to change, by repeal, altera- 
tion or suspension, unless by a vote of two-thirds of the members 
present at one of the regular, half-yearly meetings of the Board, and 
after notice, in general terms, of the change proposed, given to the 
Board, at least one day before consideration of the proposition. 



REGULATIONS 



OF THE 



LIBRARY COMMITTEE, 



1. The Librarian shall be held accountable for the safe keeping and 
good care of the books committed to his charge. He shall superintend 
and direct the internal administration of the Library, and regularly 
and faithfully perform the duties of his office. 

2. Lie shall ordinarily attend to the delivery and return of books 
borrowed from the Library, and keep a record of the same. 

3. It shall be his duty to acknowledge every donation to the Library 
by a letter of thanks, and he shall have the management of all other 
official correspondence relating to the Library. 

4. He shall receive all books, etc., sent to the Library and have them 
cleaned, and arranged in their proper places. He shall have all books 
needing it, repaired and bound. 

5. He shall enter the titles of all books, pamphlets, prints and maps, 
added to the Library from time to time, in a book or books procured 
for the purpose, mentioning the size of the volume, the alcove and 
shelf wherein placed, and any other particulars worthy of note. 

6. He shall have the Library at all limes kept neat and clean, and 
for this purpose may use, at his discretion, one of the University 
servants. 

7. He shall make two written reports to the Trustees on the state of 
the Library, the books added by donation or otherwise, and of those 
which have been lost. The one at the meeting in May for the preced- 
ing six months, the other in December for the year ending at that time. 
At these times he shall submit for the inspection iA' the Board, the 
books containing the orders of the Library C ominit tee, 

8. The report on the Library Fund shall be made up to the first ol 
November of each year, and printed with the report on the Treasury. 



30 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



Library Hours. 

9. From the first day of October to the fifteenth day of July, the 
Library shall be open the six secular days of the week from 9 o'clock 
A. M., to 1 o'clock P. M., except Christmas day, Good Friday and the 
fourth of July, and such other days as, from special reason, the Library 
Committee shall direct it to be closed. 

10. From the fifteenth day of July to the first day of October, the 
Library shall be open every Wednesday from 9 to 12 o'clock, in the 
morning. The Library will be closed when the Librarian's services are 
required as Secretary of the Faculty, and during the meetings of the 
Library and Executive Committees. 

11. Students can take out and return books on Tuesdays, Thursdays 
and Saturdays : they can obtain access on other Library days only 
when they desire to consult a reference book, or to settle their Univer- 
sity dues. 

12. All persons who wish to have access to the Library, or to bring 
their friends to see it, are expected to make their visits on the days aud 
within the hours above mentioned. 

Borrowers of Boohs. 

13. No books shall be taken from the Library except by the follow- 
ing persons, without special permission from the Library Committee, 
viz : the Trustees of the University ; all such persons as have made a 
donation to the value of one hundred dollars to the Library ; the 
officers of instruction ; resident graduates, and all the students ; and no 
graduates shall be considered as resident graduates, and, as such, 
entitled to the use of the Library, unless they reside within the Univer- 
sity walls. 

14. The Librarian shall have the discretion of allowing visitors to 
read or consult books in the Library. 

Special Laics. 

15. All persons, while in the Library, are to remain uncovered, and 
to refrain from loud conversation, and from other improprieties of 
speech and behaviour. 

16. No book shall be borrowed from the Library without the 
knowledge and presence of the Librarian, who shall take particular 
notice of the state of each book when delivered out and when returned. 

17. Each student is entitled to receive from the Library at one time, 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 31 

one folio, or as equivalent, one quarto and one octavo, or three octavos 
or four duodecimos. Except such as are preparing speeches for public 
exhibitions, who may obtain twice the number they, at other times, are 
entitled to. 

1 8. No student shall be allowed to keep any book longer than three 
weeks, and no person shall retain a periodical recently received more 
than three days. 

19. When a book is returned it may again be taken out by the same 
person, unless it has, in the meantime, been applied for by another. 
But no book can be renewed to any student unless it be brought to the 
Library. 

20. If any student desires to borrow a book which is lent out of the 
Library, he may leave his name and the title of the book with the 
Librarian, and, when the book shall be returned, the Librarian shall 
reserve it for the person so applying, provided he call for it at the next 
time of receiving books from the Library. 

21. When there are two or more copies of the same book, the least 
elegant or rare shall be lent first. 

22. If any student take a book or books from the Library without 
the knowledge and consent of the Librarian, or if he voluntarily 
mutilate any volume, he shall be liable to the penalty of suspension or 
expulsion from the University, and, if any other person, having a right 
to use the Library, shall, in like manner, transgress the rules, he shall 
be suspended from the exercise of that right during the pleasure of the* 
Library Committee. 

23. No person shall write or mark in a book belonging to the 
Library, except the Librarian, or the Chairman of the Facility, or some 
person authorized to do so by them. 

24. If any book, taken from the Library, be lost or damaged, the 
delinquent shall replace it by a new copy of equal value, within three 
months. If it be not replaced within that time, the Librarian shall 
make out an account against the said delinquent of double the price of* 
the said book, or set, if it belongs to one; which account shall be 
charged in his next bill of tuitjon, and the money shall be applied to 
the use of the library. 

25. No student shall lend to any other person, except another student, 
or sutler to be carried from his room any book belonging to the Library, 
on pain of a severe reprimand from the Librarian: and, if the offence 

be repeated, such student shall be denied access to the Library. 

26. No person shall be allowed to carry anv books belonging to the 

Library out of the Town of Columbia and its vicinity, without the per- 
mission of the Library Committee. 



32 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

27. Such books, charts, maps, etc., as have been or which may be 
presented, with the intention or request that they shall not be lent from 
the Library, shall, in no case, be lent. And the Librarian shall have 
the discretion of withholding from circulation, books which are valu- 
able for their plates, or for their rarity or antiquity, or those which he 
may designate as books of reference. 

28. When a student neglects to return a book in the legal time he 
shall be liable to pay a fine of twenty-five cents a day for every volume 
until it is returned ; when the fines amount to two dollars, it shall be 
notified to him by the Librarian. All moneys, arising from fines, etc., 
are to be collected by the Librarian at the beginning of each quarter, 
and added to the Library Fund. 

29. The students are all required to observe the strictest decorum 
while receiving books from the Librarian. Any student who shall 
violate this law shall be punishable at the discretion of the Faculty. 

30. Smoking is prohibited, and the Librarian is strictly enjoined 
never to carry, or suffered to be carried, into the Library, a lighted 
lamp or candle, except in cases of necessity. 

31. Every student, before leaving the University, for an expected 
absence of more than one week, shall return the books he may have 
from the Library. 

32. All books, borrowed by students, shall be returned on or before 
the Thursday before the beginning of the examination in June. 

33. Every person, having books from the Library, shall, without ex- 
ception, return them on or before the last day of the session, and the 
Librarian is particularly enjoined to notify, to those who neglect to 
comply with this law, that they shall not be allowed the privilege of 
the Library until their books are duly returned. 

34. No student shall be admitted to the first degree, nor any resident 
bachelor to a second degree, until he has returned, in good order or 
replaced every book that he has borrowed, or otherwise satisfied the 
Librarian, who is directed to report all defaulters to the Chairman. 

35. The Librarian shall have liberty to suspend from the privilege and 
use of the Library any student, who shall violate any of the laws 
or regulations of it, or be guilty of any flagrant breach of propriety ; 
but in any case of his doing so, he shall immediately make report of 
the same to the Chairman of the Faculty, who may restore the 
privilege or otherwise as he may think proper. 

36. The Librarian shall keep a blank book properly ruled, in which 
every person entitled to the use of the books of the University Li- 
brary, and all literary visitors, may write the title, author and 
publisher, size and price of such books or book as, according to 



UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 33 

their opinion, ought to be purchased for the Library. Each person 
recommending a book in this Avay shall, also add his own name to 
the title, etc., of the recommended book. And the Librarian shall lay 
the matter before the Trustees at their several meetings. 

37. The Librarian shall also keep a book of benefactions, in which 
shall be recorded all books, charts, maps, busts or paintings presented 
to the Library ; the name of the donor ; the title of the donation 
and the time when made. 



REGULATIONS OF THE FACULTY, 



SECTION I. 

No under-graduate shall attend the instructions of any person, who 
mav undertake to teach any language, art, science or polite accomplish- 
ment, without the permission of the Faculty. 

SECTION II. 

On the admission of any student, the Secretary of the Faculty shall 
furnish him with a copy of the Laws. 

SECTION III. 

1. During the session, the hours of morning prayer shall be, on every 
week-day from the first Monday of October to the first day of April, 
7 o'clock ; from the first day of April to the close of the session, 6 
o'clock. On Sunday mornings, prayer shall be had, from the first 
Monday of October to the first day of April, at 8 o'clock ; from the 
first of April to the close of the session, at 7 o'clock. Evening prayers 
throughout the session shall be at 5 o'clock. 

2. No student shall play on any instrument of music, or engage in 
diversions and sports on the Lord's day, and all lounging under the 
trees, or collecting in groups about the campus, or before the entries, or 
any of the University steps, for the purpose of amusement or conversa- 
tion on that day, is expressly forbidden. 

SECTION IV. 

1. Rooms shall be assigned under such regulations as the Faculty 
may adopt. 

2. If the room of any student shall be deficient in cleanliness, the 
Faculty may order all necessary cleansing to be done at his expense. 






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3. At the end of the session, and the beginning of the Christmas 
holidays, every student shall leave the key of his apartment with the 
Marshal, who shall take care of his books and furniture, and have the 
room ready for his reception upon his return. 

SECTION V. 

No student can receive his Degree or Certificate who has not re- 
turned all books for which he is responsible to the University Library. 
The Librarian shall report all defaulters to the Chairman of the Faculty 
three days before the close of the session. 

SECTION VI. 

Scale of Punishment, 

The scale of punishment shall be admonition, suspension, and report 
for expulsion. 

Decorum, 

1. The students shall observe neatness and cleanliness in their persons 
and dress, be respectful in their conduct towards the officers of the Uni- 
versity, polite to strangers, and courteous in their intercourse with the 
public and with each other. No one of them shall come into the 
chapel, or the University hall, or any apartment for recitation, without 
being fully dressed ; nor shall he lounge or sit in an indecorous position, 
nor talk, nor whisper, nor, in any manner, offend against the rules of 
propriety, common among gentlemen assembled for grave purposes. 

2. The students are required to take their seats in the chapel, Universit y 
hall, and other public rooms, and go from them in such order, as the 
Professors, respectively, may prescribe for their lecture rooms, and the 
Chairman for the chapel and University hall. 

:5. They are forbidden to smoke or to chew tobacco in any of the 
public rooms or the entries leading to them, or any of the rooms in 
which they are convened for recitation or lecture; or to soil, deface or 
mutilate them or their furniture by any means whatever. 

4. They shall always enter the chapel, University hall, library, lecture 

rooms or dining room uncovered, and remain so as long as they are in 
them. 

5. [f any student shall treat with disrespect, wilfully insult, assaull 
or strike any officer of the University, he shall he suspended or re 
ported for expulsion ;is the ease may require. 

6. li any student shall treal ruddy or discourteously any stranger 



36 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

visiting the University, he shall be suspended or reported for expulsion, 
according; to the aggravation of the case. 

Study — Neglect, Interruptions or Hindrances of. 

1. If any student shall absent himself from the University exercises 
of any kind, and fail to render a satisfactary excuse for his absence, he 
shall be subject to admonition; and one who shall habitually neglect his 
studies or other duties, may be suspended or dismissed, upon notice to 
his parent or guardian, at the discretion of the Faculty. 

2. No student shall be permitted to entertain company in his room, 
and if any shall refuse to open the door of his apartment, when re- 
quired by a member of the Faculty, he shall be admonished, suspended 
or reported for expulsion, according to the aggravation of the offence. 

3. No student or students shall be permitted to make or unite in 
making any ball, party, or festive entertainment, without special per- 
mission of the Faculty. 

Temptations to Disorder and Bad Habits. 

Students are strictly forbidden to visit bar-rooms, grog-shops, or 
disorderly houses; or to use, or bring within the precincts of the 
University, any intoxicating liquors ; or to have about their persons, 
or keep in their rooms, anj^ deadly weapon, which may be secretly 
carried : upon pain of admonition, suspension, or report for expulsion, 
at the discretion of the Faculty. 

Gross Immoralities, 

1. Any student Avho shall be guilty of any atrocious or infamous 
offence, who shall fight a duel, or give or accept a challenge to fight a 
duel, or who shall cany any challenge to fight a duel, or act as a 
second to those who shall give or accept a challenge, shall be forthwith 
suspended from the University, and reported for expulsion. 

2. All students are strictly forbidded to game, to use profane or 
obscene language, or get drunk, or be guilty of riotous, disorderly or 
any other immoral conduct ; and any one offending in any of these 
respects, shall be admonished, suspended or reported for expulsion, as 
the case may require. 

Ilinderances to the IJ.recation of the laicv. 

1. No class, or other meetings of the students, shall be held upon 
their own authority without the special permission of the Chairman, 
and then only for such purposes as shall be specified. 






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2. No society for debating or any other purpose shall hereafter be 
formed in the University, unless a copy of its constitution and of all 
its rules and regulations be submitted to the Chairman of the Faculty 
and receive his sanction. He must also be kept informed of any 
changes that are made in them. 

3. All combinations among the students to oppose the authority of 
the Faculty, or to impede the operation of the laws, are strictly for- 
bidden. 

4. If a student shall knowingly receive, harbor, or entertain in his 
room another student, who has been suspended or ordered to leave the 
University by the Faculty, the student so offending, shall be ad- 
monished or suspended at the discretion of the Faculty. 

5. When a student is suspended he must leave the University forth- 
with, unless permitted to remain longer by the Chairman of the 
Faculty ; and, whenever required to do so, must leave the Town of 
Columbia, 

SECTION VII. 

Examinations. 

The examinations arc of three kinds: 1, the Daily examinations; 
2, the Intermediate and Final general examinations ; and 8, examina- 
tions for graduation. 

1 . — Daily Exami 'mat iorssi 

Each Professor, before commencing the lecture of the day, examines 
liis elass orally, on the subject of the preceding lecture as developed in 
the text-book and expounded in the lecture. 

2. — General MtamintitioHs. 

Two general examinations of each class are held during lite session 
in the presence of a committee of the Faculty, which every student is 
required to stand. The first, called (lie Intermediate Examination, is 
held about- the middle of the session, and embraces in its scope the 
subjects of instruction in the first hall' of the course. The second, 

called the Final Examination, is held in the closing week of I ho session, 

and embraces the subjects treated of in the second half of th*' course. 

These examinatiotis arc conducted in Writing. The <|iiestions pro- 
pounded have, each, numerical values attached to them. If the 

answers of I he sludent are valued, in I he Aggregate, a1 hot less than 

Hiree-fourt'hs of the Aggregate values assigned t<» the question*?, he is 
ranked in the first division : if less Chan three-fourths and more than 



38 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 

one-half, in the second division ; if less than one-half and more than 
one-fourth, in the third division ; and if less than one-fourth, in the 
.fourth division. 

Certificates of distinction are awarded to those who attain the first 
division at one or both of these examinations, and their names are 
published or announced in the closing exercises of the session. 

The general examinations are sufficiently comprehensive and difficult 
to render it impossible for the student, without steady diligence, to 
secure a place in the first division. The results, whatever they may 
be, are communicated to parents and guardians respectively, in the 
final circular of the session. 

The standing of the student at the daily and general examinations 
is taken into the account, in ascertaining his qualifications for gradua- 
tion in any of the Schools. 

3. — Examinations for Graduation. 

The examinations for graduation are held in the last month of the 
session. They are conducted, in each School, by the Professor thereof, 
in presence of two other Professors, forming with him the committee 
of examination for the School. 

The candidates for graduation are subjected to searching interroga- 
tions on the details and niceties, as well as the leading principles of the 
subject, and they are expected to be accurately versed in all the topics 
treated of in the Lectures and correlative texts. 

These examinations are earned on chiefly in writing; but in some of 
the Schools are partly oral. 

X. B. — As a due acquaintance with the English Language is indis- 
pensable to the attainment of even the inferior honors of the Institu- 
tion, all Candidates for Graduation are subjected to a preliminary 
examination, to test their qualifications in this respect. 

SECTION VIII. 

Public Day. 

On the closing day of the session, which occurs on the 29th of June, 
unless that day be Sunday, and then on the 28th, the Visitors, Faculty, 
Officers and Students of the University assemble in the Public Hall — 
whither also, the friends of the Students and the public generally are 
invited. On this occasion the results of the examinations are 
announced, certificates and diplomas awarded, and addresses delivered 
bv the Bachelors and Masters of Arts. 



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